Horseshoe.



F. SIMEK.

HORSESHOE.

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straiwnnr orsi FRANK SIMEK, OF ASTORIA, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR 0F ONE-HALF TO REINHOLD A.

SCHMIDT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oet. 3, 1916.

Application led .Tune 17, 1916. Serial No. 104,169.

To all whom z5-may concern Be it known that I, FRANK SIMEK, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, and a resident of Astoria, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in horseshoes and particularly of that type in which removable calks are used.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a shoe of the class described which may be permanently attached to the hoof of a. horse, provisions being made wfhereby both the heel and toe calks are separable from the shoe body.

A second object is to provide means whereby the toe calk is supported in an adequate manner in all directions, the same being removable without the use of tools or appliances of any kind.

These and other objects are attained by the novel design and construction of shoe herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a horses hoof in the act of engaging with a roadway, illustrating the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shoe, looking from the lower side thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing a modilied form of toe calk. Fig. 5 is a like fractional view showing a calk-holding means.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a preferred form of toe calk. Fig. 7 is a similar view of the calk shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 8 is a fractional plan view of the shoe toe.

The construction indicates the use of a shoe 10 substantially of the ordinary pattern having depressed recesses 11 in its outer lateral edges through which are perforations to receive the nails for securing the shoe in position on the hoof.

The heel calks 15 are attached by means of screw-threaded Shanks 16 suited to engage in openings near the heel extremities of the shoe, and may be made of rectangular shape to which a wrench can be applied, the calks terminating in pyramidal points 17, or flat if preferred as shown at 18.

The upper front part of the shoe 10 is provided with an integral clip 20 suited to contact with the point of the hoof in a customary manner, while on the opposite, lower side is formed a solid abutment 21 contain* ing an opening 22 of rectangular cross section having obliquely disposed lateral walls forming in effect a tapered recess adapted to contain the truncated iattened pyramid 23 of the toe calk 24 which is preferably made with one beveled side, the opposite outer side being straight.

If desired, the toe calk may have a Hattened outer surface 25 as shown in Fig. 7. These calks are adapted to be inserted merely by pressure, as the weight of the animal on the pavement in itself tends to force the calk shank firmly into engagement with the opening, maintaining it rigidly in engagement. When, however, it 2becomes desirable to loosen the same it is accomplished very readily by striking on the ends, thereby loosening the calk so it will drop freely out. This arrangement allows for calks of different shapes to be inserted with the utmost readiness, thereby saving loss of time and expensive, frequent visits to a blacksmith or farrier, as willbe readily understood.

In order to providevagainst the possible loosening of the calk it may have an indentation 26 formed in the inner side of the shank 23, a spring detent 27 being secured in a recess 28 formed in the abutment 21 and provided with a hooked point 29 adapted to 4 what I claim as new and desire to secure said shank being suited to said recess, and by Letters Patent, is means formed. in said shank receptive of 10 In a horseshoe, the combination with the said detent.

body thereof, of an abutment extending Signed at New York, in the county of 5 along the toe below said body, la beveled New York, and State of New York, this 27 walled recess formed through said abutment day of May, 1916'. body, a spring detent secured in said recess, a toe ea-lk, a shank formed with said ealk, FRANK SIMEK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five dents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, ID.l C. 

